With the rising popularity of Touch-Screen phones like Apple iPhone and Google/T-Mobile's launch of G1 Phone, HP unveiled its first touch screen laptop.
More details on its features and availability to consumers in the given link below:-
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120867&intsrc=hm_list
These are the videos awarded the best in 12 different categories. The winners will receive bragging rights, trophy and invitation to the event to be conducted later in this year.
http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07winners
To see the list of nominees, click the link below
http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07
OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages, with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows.It’s been four months since Google’s CFO George Reyes announced he was retiring as soon as a replacement was found, and Google has thus far had no luck picking one. Shouldn’t potential candidates be storming the gates, desperate for the job?
Well, there are a number of arguments against being CFO. For one, the stock is very expensive, and may not go up. Those stock options may now be as valuable as those that could be obtained at a smaller growing company, like Facebook. Also, Google’s executive core hasn’t exactly looked like a group some experienced businessmen would like to join, with adulterers and hard partying not seen at, say, Microsoft.
Plus, Google’s corporate culture and interview process aren’t going to be appealing to the best candidates. Google values education over experience, youth over experience, problem solving over track records. Top CFOs aren’t going to lower themselves to go through that process, and the type of people Google normally likes are wholly unqualified to run the financials of a $211 billion company.
If you could pick anyone in the entire business world, who would you hire as Google’s CFO? Would you even make them interview for it?
Read more... Identity A study released Monday by Utica College's Center for Identify Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) found that the median actual dollar loss for identity theft victims was $31,356. This figure is based on 470 cases out of 517 where loss The CIMIP study is significant because it's the first time the U.S. Secret Service has allowed researchers to review its closed case files on identity theft and fraud. It is intended to provide empirical evidence that law enforcement agencies can use to combat identity theft. A 2007 study by the Javelin Strategy and Research cited an average (not median) fraud amount of $5,720 per victim that year. A 2003 Privacy & American Business survey put the average cost per victim at $740. One reason for the cost discrepancy between the CIMIP study and past ones may be that the previous cost figures focused on consumer losses. But the CIMIP study shows that identity theft affects companies as well as individuals: "The findings show that the financial services industry was just as likely to be victimized as an individual," the report states. "Most studies have focused on the individual victim," explained Gary R. Gordon, executive director of CIMIP and professor of economic crime at Utica College, in a phone interview. "In this case, we're seeing a wider range of victimization. Because the cases examined by CIMIP were investigated by the Secret Service, the loss amounts involved are likely to be large; the Secret Service simply doesn't get involved in minor scams. "What we're trying to do here is challenge some of the convention wisdom and provide empirical evidence rather than anecdotal evidence in looking at identity theft crimes," said Gordon. CIMIP works with corporate, government, and academic institutions to research identity management, information sharing, and data protection. Its corporate partners includeIBM (NYSE: IBM), LexisNexis, TransUnion; its federal partners include U.S. Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Marshals Service; and its academic partners include Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and Syracuse University's CASE Center. One of the study's most surprising findings is that while the Internet may be helpful for identity thieves, it's not necessary. "Analysis of the methods employed by the offenders showed that Internet and/or other technological devices were used in approximately half of the cases," the report says. "In some cases, the offenders began with a non-technological act, such as mail theft, to obtain the personal identifying information, but then used devices such as digital cameras, computers, scanners, laminators, and cell phones to produce and distribute fraudulent documents. While the use of the Internet as a criminal tool had a presence, it did not appear to be a necessity for most offenders to reach their goals." Among the 517 cases analyzed, 102 included the use of the Internet. Nontechnological means of identity theft -- mail theft, mail rerouting, and Dumpster diving -- occurred in 106 cases. Another unexpected finding is that in half of the identity theft cases analyzed, the crime began in a business. In 274 cases where a point of compromise could be identified, businesses accounted for 50% (137) of the breaches. "There are a lot of cases where businesses provide the points of compromise," said Gordon. While about two-thirds of the cases did not involve insiders, one third did. "A third of the cases involved identity theft through employment," said Gordon. "Those numbers we think are significant." Of the 176 cases where the point of vulnerability was the offender's place of employment, 77 involved the retail industry, more than twice as many as occurred private companies, banks, or government agencies. The report also suggests that the demographics of identity theft offenders don't conform to the conventional wisdom. "While some of the findings about the offenders may not be surprising, others seem to contradict the image that, in some ways, has been formed by default: that identity thieves are usually white males," the report says. "The results show that identity theft is a crime that minorities are just as apt to commit as whites." According to the report, "The majority of the offenders were black: 53.8% (467). White offenders accounted for 38.3% (332); 4.8% (42) of the offenders were Hispanic and 3.1% (27) were Asian. The race for 65 of the offenders was not made available." "We don't have an explanation; we're just reporting on the data set," said Gordon.
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